If you are signing up to the forums, Thank you. You will need to activate your account by clicking a link in an email from the forums.
Please make sure you check your Junk/Spam folder for the email and make sure you spell your email address correctly or you won't get the email.
Thanks again. Dismiss this with the [X] >>>>>>

Best Canal Anglers!!

Anything fishing here including Tackle and Bait.
colly
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 72
Joined: December 30th, 2009, 7:18 pm
Location: Northants
Match Team/ Club: Browning Northants

Best Canal Anglers!!

#1

Unread post by colly »

Similar to the world champs post, name you top canal men past and present.  Here's mine for starters:

Joker - Ian Moulton (still have nightmares about fishing next to him) Norm Carpenter, Pete Vasey
Squatt - Polly, Dave Brown, Gary Miller
Bread - Fred Cheetham, John Haynes (old Bedworth angler) + 1
Caster/big fish - Preecy, Paul Turner, Gordon Curl (Oakwood)

Them big deep Yorkshire ones and that big hole in Gloucester - Alan Scotthorne, Lee Kerry, Kim Milson.
Image
User avatar
Arch
Forum Ornament
Forum Ornament
Posts: 435
Joined: June 13th, 2011, 7:36 am

Best Canal Anglers!!

#2

Unread post by Arch »

Billy Makin.
sven
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 380
Joined: December 26th, 2011, 1:12 pm
Location: Burslem
Match Team/ Club: Eclipse
Sponsor: Gudgeon

Best Canal Anglers!!

#3

Unread post by sven »

Team mate fred cheetham, simon nickless, paul hughes, dave brown, simon mottram, dave loydd, carl baker, nigel bull Image
edgey46
New Member
New Member
Posts: 28
Joined: July 1st, 2012, 3:44 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#4

Unread post by edgey46 »

Around staffordshire at the moment in my opinion
Squatt/small fish - dean williams-mel wood-macca-kev perry
Bread/hemp- fred cheetham - eric gardner
Caster / big fish - paul turner - steve broom
User avatar
keef
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 273
Joined: April 28th, 2009, 10:24 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#5

Unread post by keef »

cannot belive nobody has mentiond norman carpenter
User avatar
joffmiester
Forum Spammer
Forum Spammer
Posts: 17044
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 5:08 pm
Personal Text: if i drank carlsberg i
would probably be good
Match Team/ Club: SENSAS
Sponsor: SENSAS VAN JOFF FLOATS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#6

Unread post by joffmiester »

Image Imageu Imagecolly has keef on the first write up kiddo have you been on the pop again
User avatar
swampy
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 239
Joined: January 28th, 2008, 10:20 pm
Location: willenhall
Match Team/ Club: Tipton till I die!!!

Best Canal Anglers!!

#7

Unread post by swampy »

Mel Wood edges!!! He couldn't catch a cold!! Image

All round great canal anglers for me-

Dean Stewart, Dave Brown, Jason Cunningham, Andy Billington, Darren Bickerton and me Image Image Image
edgey46
New Member
New Member
Posts: 28
Joined: July 1st, 2012, 3:44 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#8

Unread post by edgey46 »

Swampy chk his results over the last two years not been on a bad peg lol most of the time comes back with 6 lb or more
kev p
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 216
Joined: April 18th, 2011, 8:16 am
Location: dudley
Match Team/ Club: maver midlands
Sponsor: maver

Best Canal Anglers!!

#9

Unread post by kev p »

Most of my former Tipton team mates plus d Massey R Quinn and my old mate John fowler
User avatar
bill yards
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 7557
Joined: June 25th, 2008, 11:16 am

Best Canal Anglers!!

#10

Unread post by bill yards »

This is a difficult one is this as canals vary. Take the North Sea Canal in Holland where it is one mile wide (car ferries go up it) and well over 30 feet deep, - it also rises and falls as you fish it. On the Kinda Canal in Sweden (another one that flows) you have to fish the slider on one length, - it was that deep and CIPS Rules. Scaling down a bit you have the Gloucester, New Junction and a few other that need a different approach owing to their depth and fish content.

Also today canal anglers specialise on certain baits and tactics, they also specialise geographically, you can not blame them with fuel costs.

If we mean all round "narrow canal anglers" it is slightly different. When Dave Berrow was practising (on a daily basis) he was the best. Pete Hargreaves was another one that sticks in the mind, totally different style but equally as effective.

Unfortunately lots of canal anglers had really good spells for fairly short periods, it still goes on today, for some reason the bubble then bursts, - maybe some want a change of scenery!

In very recent years, in my book, your best two canal anglers, for narrow canal work, have been Mark Pollard and Paul Ross.

There are some excellent canal anglers out there at this very time but as good as they are I see nobody that gets anywhere near Rocco; nobody did any more to get the best out of his draw, no matter how good or bad his peg was.

If I had to pick any all round canal anglers today I would go for Darran Bickerton and Polly.

There are some very interesting suggestions on this post but not too many 'all round; canal anglers.

Where's me crash hat? Image Image Image Image
User avatar
joffmiester
Forum Spammer
Forum Spammer
Posts: 17044
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 5:08 pm
Personal Text: if i drank carlsberg i
would probably be good
Match Team/ Club: SENSAS
Sponsor: SENSAS VAN JOFF FLOATS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#11

Unread post by joffmiester »

not so keen on this topic as for England you have to be good at all angling's disciplines [a part from legering]
but the likes of ray mills, billy makin ,dave berrows jon hargreaves bil
and fred the bread all stickout to me
on the young side llove him or hate him Image darren lewis is a cracking canal angler
along with jason cunningham darren massey paul bick all have great track records on canals Image
User avatar
bill yards
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 7557
Joined: June 25th, 2008, 11:16 am

Best Canal Anglers!!

#12

Unread post by bill yards »

llove him or hate him darren lewis



I think I have a headache coming on -- where's me pills Image Image
User avatar
MrV
Gathering Dust
Gathering Dust
Posts: 1916
Joined: November 8th, 2006, 11:38 pm
Personal Text: Still waiting on an end peg!!
Location: Huntington
Match Team/ Club: Cashmores MG
Sponsor: NHS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#13

Unread post by MrV »

Bill, you have my utmost respect as a wise old sage, and as an even older angler, but honestly......... to leave Joffie off your list of the greats Image Image (pm sent Joffie so you can send me the cheque kiddo)

When I sit and think back to some of the leagues that I was priveleged to take part in, there are a few consistent names who could tackle any canal and achieve exceptional results.
I am talking here of T & M canal, Shroppie, S & W, and further afield to the likes of the Bridgie, L & L, Lanky. The distant ones for me were usually for nationals, apart from the Bridgie where I fished AT winter leagues, but here are my nominees.

Jeff Moores, Ian Moulton, Paul Turner, Fred the Bread, Bezza, Pete Hargreaves, Simon Nickless.

These lads could sort out any venue they went to. Used to get battered regularly by them,but never minded as it was all a learning curve for me. Image Image
User avatar
joffmiester
Forum Spammer
Forum Spammer
Posts: 17044
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 5:08 pm
Personal Text: if i drank carlsberg i
would probably be good
Match Team/ Club: SENSAS
Sponsor: SENSAS VAN JOFF FLOATS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#14

Unread post by joffmiester »

cheque in the post kiddo the way i draw i could take on rolfe harris and win a medalImage Image
mrV don't for get back then a canal match was as big as a river match with anywhere between 100  to 200 anglers  pete hargraves thats the fella Image
Dodge
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 7639
Joined: December 12th, 2007, 7:55 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#15

Unread post by Dodge »

Not getting involved in this thread purely because there are so many quality canal anglers around these days i could easily pick at least 50 Image
User avatar
keef
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 273
Joined: April 28th, 2009, 10:24 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#16

Unread post by keef »

Image Imageu Imagecolly has keef on the first write up kiddo have you been on the pop again
afraid so joff Image
User avatar
Woodhouse
HanKat Crony
HanKat Crony
Posts: 4300
Joined: September 18th, 2006, 5:30 pm
Location: Wolverhampton.
Match Team/ Club: Maver Tipton VDE

Best Canal Anglers!!

#17

Unread post by Woodhouse »

Planty


He ain't called the master for nothing!
User avatar
joffmiester
Forum Spammer
Forum Spammer
Posts: 17044
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 5:08 pm
Personal Text: if i drank carlsberg i
would probably be good
Match Team/ Club: SENSAS
Sponsor: SENSAS VAN JOFF FLOATS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#18

Unread post by joffmiester »

Dodge I hope no one puts up a topic the best commercial angler Image Image Image
Paul_T
New Member
New Member
Posts: 25
Joined: April 2nd, 2012, 8:22 pm

Best Canal Anglers!!

#19

Unread post by Paul_T »

When there used to be a canal scene 20 plus years ago darn sarf on the LAA stretches of the Grand Union it was like a who's who of top canal anglers. Here's just a few I can remember: Dave Vincent, Mick Vincent, Derek Young, Pete Vasey, Andy Mead, Mark Pollard, Chris Pollard, Gary Miller, Chris V, Jason Wooster, Graham Smith, Gordon Curl, Kim Milsom, Steve Gardner, Clive Gingell, Glen Brown, Mark Hoye, Kevin Stack, Simon Drew, Gary Page, Darren Davis, Toni Marti, Lee Newsom, Mark Bird, John Hassler, Graham Dack.

I was a young man then and just used to gawp star struck at the draw!

Let's also not forget Fred the chair, the old boy that used to travel all over the shop to come & spectate!
leeben1
Full Member
Full Member
Posts: 113
Joined: October 20th, 2011, 4:12 pm
Location: derby
Match Team/ Club: sensas MAS
Sponsor: sensas MAS

Best Canal Anglers!!

#20

Unread post by leeben1 »

nathen hughes and sean ashby aswell as dazzla from derby
Post Reply